Re: [gentoo-server] apache2 + ssl + multiple virtual hosts

[Eric Thibodeau]

Chris,
    You might find an answer to your issues by using the Proxy module
and running other instances of Apache (calling out apache with
command-line specified config file). It's ugly but you would be able to
have multiple servers using different SSL keys (I've done it and it
works). Basically one front Apache server and a few in the back tweaked
for each web site's load and config specifics... I don't like it but it
seems to be the only way to do it for multiple SSL keys...

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 13:36, Christian Parpart wrote:

> On Saturday 04 September 2004 5:00 pm, Zrubecz Laszlo wrote:
> > 2004-09-04, szo keltezéssel 13:14-kor Christian Parpart ezt írta:
> > > Wildcarding doesn't really help right here, because the vhosts are not
> > > all under the same domain, so, not a general solution here :(
> >
> > In this case you can't run more then one virtualhost with the same
> > listening address.
> >
> > What you can do:
> > - use IP besed virtual hosts
>
> That's to bad, I've just one IP, and more IPs cost money I do not have ;(
>
> > - use different listening port for virtualhosts
>
> That's an idea, however, I do not prefer this, as it's not really intuitive.
>
> I'm still wondering about the technical side, AS I do not understand *why* the
> web server can just serve one webserver certificate per (IP:PORT) pair.
>
> If someone usefull bookmark for me, I'd be pleased to read on them :)
>
> Although, Apache, shall complain if this violates some https-design - as it
> obviousely doesn't. The only thing he is complaining is about not matching
> CN's when they REALLY ARE different to current <VirtualHost> context.
> So now, it didn't. Strange.
>
> Regards,
> Christian Parpart.

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Eric Thibodeau <kyron@×××××.com>